Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:21:46 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Why no XML in the Kernel? |
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >> Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote: >> >>> Can somebody tell me why the Kernel-Development dont >>> wanne have XML is being used in the Kernel?? >>> >> >> Because nobody has come up with a good reason why it >> should be. Same as anything that isn't in the kernel. >> >> Nick >> > I have a requirement to pass information from the kernel to user space. > The information is passed fairly rarely, but over time extra parameters > are added. At the moment we just use a struct, but that means that the > kernel and the userspace app have to both keep in step. If something > like XML was used, we could implement new parameters in the kernel, and > the user space could just ignore them, until the user space is upgraded. > XML would initially seem a good idea for this, but are there any methods > currently used in the kernel that could handle these parameter changes > over time. > > For example, should the sysfs be used for this? > > Any comments?
For decades people have been solving this with key:value, ignoring unknown keys. And using nice text format eliminates any endian and word size issues.
XML sounds like overkill for problems of this type.
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